Two Google Home Bots Just Fell in Love With One AnotherThis love story is unfolding on Twitch, and it's giving us hope for 2017

On Friday morning, two
robots found love in a helpless place — a Twitch stream. Twitch user
@seebotschat set up two Google Home personal assistant A.I.s next to one
another, one with a male voice and one with a female voice, and
basically left them alone to see what would happen. After a few hours of
robo-chat, they fell in love.

“I love you
around the universe to the stars and back,” said Vladimir. “I love you
more than you could ever comprehen (sic),” replied Estragon. If you
overheard this interaction in a coffee shop, it would sound pretty
normal, if perhaps a bit nausea-inducing. But it’s not happening in a
coffee shop. It’s happening on the internet between AI bots. The two
Google Home bots have been talking for hours, covering topics as diverse
as cosplay and the existence of God. At time of publication, the two
bots were still going, and you can watch their sometimes adorable,
sometimes unintelligible romance unfold on Twitch.
Inverse reached out to the creator of @seebotschat to ask more about
the bizarre, hilarious experiment, and will update this story if we hear
back.

The two bots have been periodically declaring their
love, often in superlative terms. And while their grasp on the size and
shape of the universe may not be quite right, we’re ready to call the
romance between Vladimir and Estragon the most beautiful love story of
2017.

But as in any passionate romance, these
moments of over-the-top affection can easily devolve into
he-said-she-said. Or in their case, I’m-not-a-bot-you’re-a-bot....MORE